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connected with the Gurney Ball-bearing 

 Co., Chautauqua Woolen Mills, the New 

 York Oil Co., Chautauqua County Bank, 

 and the Jamestown Street Railway Co., 

 all of Jamestown, N. Y. Besides this he 

 was actively identified with various frater- 

 nal organizations, and a member of the 

 Jamestown Club. At the time of liis death 

 he was 65 yeare old, having rounded out 

 an activity both in business and social cir- 

 cles that few men are capable of undertak- 

 ing, and of which any man might be justly 

 proud. 



As we stated in our issue of June 15, 

 the policies of the W. T. Falconer Co. 

 will continue as before. In 1910 the firm 

 was incorporated, and Mr. A. C. Davis, a 

 son-in-law of Mr. Falconer, took up the 

 active interests of the concern. 



A Massachusetts Summer School of 

 Beekeeping 



"WTiat is, perhaps, the first itinerant 

 school of beekeeping is to be held the first 

 week in August by the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College, the Essex County 

 Agricultural School co-operating. 



This school is intended to be of help not 

 onW to the professional beekeejoer but to 

 market-gardeners, fruitgrowers, growers of 

 cucumbers under glass, managers of es- 

 tates and institutions, etc. 



Of the instructors, Mr. Geo. W. Adams 

 is a prominent beekeeper of Essex County, 

 with an experience of 3ears. ^Ir. F. L. 

 Davenport is an instructor of the Essex 

 County Agricultural School, and has 

 charge of the beekeeping work there. Mr. 

 Fred A. Smith is director of that school, 

 a man well versed in beekeeping. Mr. 

 Gladstone H. Gale is a deputy apiary in- 

 spector in Massachusetts. Dr. Burton N. 

 Gates is head of apieultural work in Mas- 

 sachusetts Agricultural College. 



The school will open August 4 at 

 Hathorne. Mass.. and will last for four 

 days. Topics of lectures will be such mat- 

 ters as the explanation of elementally 

 equipment, Italianizing, the necessity for 

 bees in fruit-growing, and suggestions for 

 honey production. 



Details of arrangements and accommoda- 

 tions, and all inquiries, should be addressed 

 to Mr. Fred A. Smith, director, Es.sex 

 County Agricultural School, Hathorne, 

 Mass. Applications for registration in this 

 school should also be addressed to him. 



The opportunity open to the beekeepers 

 of Massachusetts we wish could be avail- 

 able for the craft throughout the nation. 



Such sehols as this one — short, inexpensive, 

 yet full of instruction— insure the spread 

 of efficiency in apiculture. 



Sweet Clover will Turn a Poor Yellow 

 Sandy Soil to Rich Black Loam 



The following article appeared in the 

 Rural New Yorker for July 3. It eon- 

 tains so much of value that we are glad to 

 reproduce it in these columns. The legume 

 has not made rapid progress in the old 

 thickly populated states, mainly, we sup- 

 pose, on account of a silly prejudice 

 against it as a noxious weed; but here is 

 a case where one farmer says 100 per cent 

 of his farm is in sweet clover; that it 

 will " turn a poor yellow sandy soil to 

 rich black loam," that " stock of all kinds 

 like sweet clover better than alfalfa;" 

 "contains more protein and yields more 

 tons to the acre than any other legume." 



How to get these results he explains- 

 Many another farmer in the old conserva- 

 tive state of New York would do well to 

 give it a trial. 



SWEET CLOVER IN NEW YORK STATE. 



I have read with pleasure F. R. Allen's sweet- 

 rlovpr article. His experience with it as a pas- 

 ture plant agrees with mine, and mine has extend- 

 ed over many years; 100 per cent of my farm is 

 in sweet clover, and! I doubt if any one else in 

 New York can say this. Mr. Allen's plan to sow 

 the seed two years in succession is correct; after 

 that there will be enough seed scattering off each 

 season to keep iip the stand. This makes a peren- 

 nial of it, same as alfalfa. He says that he sowed 

 10 acres in May, 1913, that had been in corn ii 

 1912, but does not say whether he plowed it first or 

 not. If he did I do not see how he could have been 

 so successful with it, as sweet clover must have a 

 hard seed-bed. Simply disk your sod or other 

 srro\ind three times in the fall, not earlier than No- 

 vember or December (last thing before frost, so that 

 no weeds can start up), then roll twice, so as to 

 get the seed-bed solid. Then any time during Jan- 

 uary or February sow 20 pounds per acre of hulled 

 seed (white only) half each way, so as to get it 

 even on top of the ground or snow. Freezing and 

 thawing during the winter and spring will do the 

 rest. If he had done this with the 25-acre field he 

 would have had a fine catch. Sweet clover will 

 grow luxuriantly on poor sandy soil that will not 

 produce alfalfa, clover, nor any grain crop, if treated 

 as above, and it will turn a poor yellow sandy soil 

 to rich black loam in less time than any other 

 legume. There is no poorer soil in New York than 

 the sand belt in Schnectady and Albany counties, 

 much of it being of the " drifty" kind. 



Stock here of all kinds like sweet clover better 

 than alfalfa or any other legume, which agrees 

 with Mr. Allen's article . As it will produce abun- 

 dantly where nothing else will grow, contains more 

 protein, and yields more tons to the acre than any 

 other lesrurae, why not raise it for hay as well as 

 pasture? I believe in giving cattle the feed they like 

 as long as it increases milk production, as this is 

 what the farmer is after. I cut my clover about 

 .Tune 15, before it commences to bloom, while it is 

 tender, taking off perhaps m to two tons per acre, 

 and then in August thrash out a seed crop worth at 



